Through a solo performance, I move through the social space—embodying three different customers, a waitstaff and a barista. 

These fluid shifts become a visual language for the immigrant experience: a continual recalibration of identity in response to surrounding expectations, while an internal sense of displacement persists.

The title phrase, “I’m in but I’m not in,” reflects this tension—being physically present within a space, yet not fully situated within it. Repetition, gesture and role-playing become a quiet negotiation of belonging; where identity remains multiple, provisional and unresolved.

Set within the familiar texture of everyday interaction, the work holds a subtle dissonance—not announced, but felt.

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Credit

Developed for Coffee & SerendipiTea, a duo exhibition commissioned and curated by Bankstown Arts Centre, 2024.

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